Iran, Egypt leaders hold first two-way meeting

TEHRAN: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his
Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi on Thursday discussed
the Syrian conflict and their countries' long severed ties in a
first two-way meeting, an official said.
"They emphasised the need to solve the Syria crisis via
diplomacy and to prevent foreign intervention," Iranian Deputy
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told Iran's Arabic-
language broadcaster Al-Alam.
"They also discussed the ways to boost the level of Tehran-
Cairo relations," he said.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012